I have Virtual Center Server and Client installed. When I connect from Client to server, I can connect successfully. When I use the sample SDK program to programatically connect to the server, I get this error. I am using the correct username and password. What am I missing?
Can you connect to the Virtual Center server in a browser and display the Web Access page? The VI Client uses port 902 and 903 while the SDK uses 443 by default. I didn't actually think the VI Client used ports 80/443 as well but looking at the netstat results now it does indeed seem to.
You are right. I cannot connect through a browser either. How do I make the SDK connect through a different port?
Some questions:
1. Which sample are you trying to use?
2. Which URL are you passing to the sample? You should be using https://your_FQDN_servername/sdk or try https://your_FQDN_servername/webService
3. Can you connect to the managed object browser on the web service? Try that. The URL is https://your_FQDN_servername/mob
Thanks for taking the time to help me out.
1. I am trying the connect2005 sample.
2 & 3. I am passing . I also tried the /mob and the /webService.
The firewall is turned off.
The credentials work with the VirtualCenter Client UI.
The security certificate file was installed correctly.
Still no luck connecting...
You should be able to alter vpxd.cfg located at C:\Documents and Setting\All Users\Application Data\Vmware\Vmware VirtualCenter to change the port being used.
If you log on to the Virtual Center server itself can you connect via a browser? If you can, it sounds like there could be a firewall issue between you and the VC server.
I modified the port number and now I don't get the "No connection .... " error. Instead I get the error:
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A certification chain processed correctly, but terminated in a root certificate which isn't trusted by the trust provider.
The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value.
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Sounds like progress , but I am not there yet .
Sounds definitely like a server-cert issue. Which version of VirtualCenter are you running? Also, do you have complete control over the VC server? Is it a production system, or just one you're playing around with? You might consider configuring the server for HTTP (and avoid this whole SSL thang). VMware published a new guide for SDK 2.0.1 a while ago, which i've been using. There's a chapter on certificates in this book:
Also, there's more information about VirtualCenter Server certs, and some issues that you may be having, in this paper:
Good luck to you, hope this helps.
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The VC Server is in a sandbox environment, not production. So I wanted to take your advice and make it non-ssl. But the documentation asks to edit the file vpxd.cfg. I looked for this file on the VC Service/ Webservice machine and could not find it. Is the method different for VC 1.4.1?
Thanks. That was very useful. Does the fact that it is 1.4 affect the commandline parameters to the sample code?
Now I have configured the VC Server for non-ssl communication. But the sample code still does not work for me. The readme.txt for the sdk says we need to pass the url ( username password ) as command line args. I did so. But it is throwing an exception with an empty string for message.
The stack trace shows the following.
StackTrace " at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)\r\n at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)\r\n at VimApi.VimService.RetrieveServiceContent(ManagedObjectReference this)\r\n at ClientUtils.SvcConnection.Connect(String url, String username, String password) in C:
Documents and Settings
sunandini
Desktop
VirtualCenter
vi-sdk-2.0.1-32042
SDK
samples2_0
DotNet
cs
ClientUtils
SvcConnection.cs:line 49\r\n at ClientUtils.ServiceUtil.ClientConnect() in C:
Documents and Settings
sunandini
Desktop
VirtualCenter
vi-sdk-2.0.1-32042
SDK
samples_2_0
DotNet
cs
ClientUtils
ServiceUtil.cs:line 29"
Should I be passing some other url for 1.4?
Sorry, but you have just exceeded my knowledge banks on this stuff. I'm not really familiar with the 1.4.1 VC stuff, and I'm not a .net person at all--just Java. Just familiar with some of the FAQs and such. Hopefully, someone from VMware can help you with this question.